Chalk and talk make special moments

Published: 29 January 2007

My wife and I last year spent a month of our long-service leave in Ghana as volunteer teachers. The school in which we worked, we were informed in advance, was poor. This we found to be an understatement; it was very, very poor. We walked most of the 3km to school each morning and would arrive dripping wet from the humidity, knowing that's the way it would be for the rest of the day. But such discomforts were quickly forgotten as students ran enthusiastically to meet us, vying to carry our bags to school - Len Minty